Jul 08 2008
Sympathy for Ed McMahon??
I realize I’m a bit late in regards to the ‘horrible’ news that Ed McMahon is facing living on the streets - if he can’t sell his $6.5 million dollar home that is.
What a sad, heartbreaking moment to watch him beg for sympathy (and apparently financial help) from the American people on Larry King. How nice it was to hear Mr. McMahon relate to the millions of fellow Americans also facing foreclosure of their homes… homes that cost nowhere near $6.5!
Really? What, exactly, was he thinking by trying to get sympathy from the very people who are not just losing their homes but are also having to give up their pets in hopes of keeping their modest home for their children to live in? When many people are currently having to work two to three jobs just to make enough to pay for gas and food did he really think we’d all collectively say “Oh, that poor man. We must send money to him so he can keep his home that cost more than we will ever even dream of seeing in our lifetime”?
Once again another example of the elite being out of touch with reality (Hollywood or otherwise). The following night on Entertainment Tonight he proceded to give a tour of his home for all the world to see what he may have to live without if it is foreclosed. The best part? He mentioned it’s been getting more difficult to pay his landscaping bills and his housecleaners. Here’s a thought - do it yourself? Get your kids to help out? Make the plastic wife work for her surgeries?
Much like Bush acting as if he understood the pain and suffering those affected by Hurricane Katrina (I’m guessing he meant the pain of losing his favorite local bar), Ed McMahon has no understanding of what it’s really like to lose a home and tell your young children they will have to live in a shelter with strangers.
Can we now please stop admiring celebrities and start celebrating the hard-working man or woman?
